Category: Projects

Summary Coral Monitoring: Start date 21st April 2015; Duration: 20 weeks Dredging: Start date 29th April 2015; Duration: 19 weeks The dials are status on 25th September 2015 with an average of 22.5 bleaching at Impact sites (24% on 8/9/15) and 17% bleaching (16% on 8/9/15) at Control sites Dredging Locations: Dredge worked off Fogafale…

1 Background 1.1 The Project The Tuvalu Borrow Pits Remediation Project (TBPRP) is now refilling borrow pits that were created on Funafuti (on the islets of Fogafale and Tegako) during World War II for the purpose of constructing the airport runway. The project includes restoration of a breach in the islet of Tegako and other…

Dredging has been on-going now for almost 5 weeks (begun on 29th April 2015), with all dredging to date concentrated in the area between Site 1 and Site 2 near the northern end of Tegako islet. Monitoring of corals has been carried out since 21st April (almost 6 weeks). The coral watch results for the…

The Tuvalu Borrow Pits Rehabilitation Project, funded by New Zealand, aims to improve the living standards of communities living in Funafuti by filling in up to 10 borrow pits located on Funafuti Atoll and improving water and sanitation services. The project also aims to improve the Island’s resilience to the impacts of climate change such…

This is the first of a series of coral monitoring reports we will send around to keep track of indicators of coral stress during the dredging works. The measurements are being taken by Paeniu Lopati and Filipo Makolo of the Fisheries Department using the Coral Watch methodology. The aim is to use corals as sensitive…

Provision of safe water supply and sanitation, particularly in the wake of the 2004 tsunami, has become an urgent task for the Maldives Government. The Ministry of Housing, Transport and Environment (MHTE) developed an action plan for the implementation of water supply and sewerage projects in tsunami-affected islands and focus islands for regional development. A…

The farming of warm water red seaweed Kappaphycus alvarezii better known by it’s trade name: Cottonii has been undertaken in South-east Asia for a little over 30 years where it has become the main cash crop for many rural dwelling coastal communities who farm the seaweed for the global food industry who utilise the weeds…

The Papua New Guinea (PNG) Coastal Fisheries Management and Development Project (CFMDP) was implemented by the PNG National Fisheries Authority (NFA) using loan finance from the Asian Development Bank (ADB). The Project centred on the construction of wharves and associated infrastructure to provide dedicated facilities for PNG’s growing domestic commercial fishing industry. The project included…